Title: You’ve Got Mail

acast Time: 1:18:13
Youtube Time: 1:17:23

Original Record Date: March 9, 2020
acast Publication Date: March 13, 2020
Youtube Publication Date: March 13, 2020

Please Welcome a Man
Who has just retired from his most lucrative job he’s ever done.

Acronym Modification
Richard Herring’s Lobbing Sixpences and Tuppences Podcast

Cool Kids
I was hanging around on Twitch yesterday. 329,000 people came on. They were just annoyed I wasn’t playing a game and talking about it.

Guest Best Known
As Gariiiiiii in Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind.

Audience

Better or Worse than Last Week: N/A
Like or Unlike Wikipedia: N/A

Member Member Note
Unnamed asked the date of International Men’s Day

Emergency Questions

Is there an author who you would have liked to have heard read their own books on an audiobook from the past, before this technology existed?

Yeah, yeah. I’d like to have, um… I mean, all those Roman authors: *unclear* and Cicero and Ovid and Seneca. They’re all so brilliant, you know. I used to think Roman Latin it’s called at school. I didn’t get on well with Latin, but now I read translations of them and they’re wonderfully up-to-date and modern. And I’d love to hear, you know, how they read. How did Ovid speak? *With low, smooth voice:* “Oooh, you know, *unclear.*” *With nasally voice:* Or did he have a funny voice like that? “*Unclear*.” Oh, shut up, Ovid. Shut up, Ovid. Cicero: “Oh, I’ve got a lovely house in Rome. We don’t go there very often because we live up off the Appian Way. Have you ever done it – the Appian Way? It’s quite exciting, really.

Notes

Recording of this episode takes place the day after RH’s last ever International When’s International Men’s Day? Day (International Women’s Day), wherein RH responds to all tweets inquiring as to when International Men’s Day takes place.

RH has noted multiple time over the lifespan of the podcast that MP is his dream guest.

During the episode RH described MP as his “ultimate comedy hero”.

During the introduction, RH notes that he feel like “a child that has won a competition.”

First mention of the COVID-19 pandemic/coronavirus pandemic during this episode.

RH mentions that his mother looks a bit like Bobby Robson.

RH mentions that one of his first jobs was working at a company in Brentford that manufactured parts for lighthouses.